Astrovirus Research Essential Ideas, Everyday Impacts, Future Directions /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Schultz-Cherry, Stacey. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Microbiology.; Medical virology.; Emerging infectious diseases.; Biochemistry.; Biomedicine.; Medical Microbiology.; Virology.; Infectious Diseases.; Animal Biochemistry.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4735-1

Since their initial discovery in the 1970s, astroviruses have been recognized as a leading cause of enteritis in infants, the elderly, and immunocompromised people, and were known to be widespread in animals and birds. In recent years, and with the advent of �pyrosequencing, there has been a virtua...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Epidemiology of Human Astroviruses
• Replication Cycle of Astroviruses
• Astrovirus Structure and Assembly
• Astrovirus Pathogenesis
• Immune Responses
• Astrovirus Taxonomy
• New Human Astroviruses
• Astrovirus Infections in Animal Mammalian Species
• Avian Astroviruses
• Index.